The photonic lantern

著者: T. A. Birks, Itandehui Gris-Sánchez, Stephanos Yerolatsitis, Sergio G. Leon-Saval, Robert R. Thomson - Advances in Optics and Photonics 2015 被引用: 347

Photonic lanterns are made by adiabatically merging several single-mode cores into one multimode core. They provide low-loss interfaces between single-mode and multimode systems, where the precise optical mapping between cores and individual modes is unimportant.